Newsletter From poop to power: Partnership turns pig manure into energy The average American eats about 50 pounds of pork each year. Much of it comes from industrial-scale hog farms that raise thousands of pigs at a time. All those animals create an enormous amount of waste.
NC floodwaters carried pig, human waste after Florence Hurricane Florence caused about 121 million gallons of untreated or partially treated sewage to spill in almost 600 incidents.
